Dumbledore and Sirius

[mommystery2003]

No: HPFGUIDX 105100

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Amey Chinchorkar" > 
> Also, some quotes from OoT, "Snape's Worst Memory":
> Snape reacted so fast it was as though he had been expecting an 
attack: dropping his bag, he plunged his hand inside his robes and 
his wand was halfway into the air when James shouted, 'Expelliarmus!' 
<snip>

I read that to mean that both James and Sirius had already attacked 
Snape in the past and he was almost always prepared now.  Two against 
one certainly shows (to me at least)who are the real cowards and 
bullies here.

We don't know yet, and might never know, what those three did to each 
other during school, but we can be sure that James and Sirius are not 
the golden boys that Harry wants them to be.  They were troublemakers 
in the true sense of the word.

> That brings me again to the same question, give me one example of 
Sirius being a bully, a risk to himself and others, all together, a 
dangerous person? (and please don't give me his seeting up Snape). 

Sirius was a risk to himself at Grimmauld Place - he was sitting 
around with little to do, apparently feeling sorry for himself, which 
is a very dangerous thing to do and can lead to impulsive acts...such 
as running off to the Ministry, instead of staying put like he was 
supposed to.  Instead he rushes off to save Harry, who himself 
doesn't think ahead and gets Sirius in trouble.  While Sirius's death 
can only be blamed on one person, Bellatrix, the events leading up to 
it can be blamed on the risks he took when he knew better.

As for him being a bully, just look at what him and James were 
doing.  Isn't that being a bully?  Ganging up on one person?  How 
about the Shrieking Shack incident?  That was dangerous not only to 
Snape, but potentially lethal to Lupin as well, who, at the very 
least could have been sent to Azkaban if he had killed Snape.

> Also one more point I would like to add here, how objective is 
penceive? (I know, this has been discussed many times, but we don't 
have any canon of it's level of subjectivity or objectivity)

I think a pensieve is objective - it seems to show events as they 
happened, without editing.  It's a memory of that person's version of 
what happened.

Ces